Elizabeth Sedgwick Child family collection 1826-1918 1826-1837, 1855-1885 Child, Elizabeth Sedgwick family collection

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Lenox Academy

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Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897

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While living in Gunnison, Sylvester was called to fight in the Black Hawk Indian War. From the description of History of my life during the Indian Wars, 1909. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122639869 Mathematician and university professor. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1842-1936]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122318590 ...

Sedgwick, Jane Minot

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Butler, Susan Ridley Sedgwick, 1828-1883

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Sargent, Helen Child

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876

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Harriet Martineau, English novelist, economist, and social reformer. From the guide to the Harriet Martineau manuscript material : 11 items, ca. 1834-1861, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English author and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Judge Joseph Story, [1836] May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871427 Harriet Martineau, journalis...

Sedgwick, William E.

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Child family

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United States Congressman Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813) and his first wife, Pamela Dwight (1752 or 1754-1807), had seven surviving children: Elizabeth Mason (1775-1827), Frances Pamela (1778-1842), Theodore (1780-1839), Henry Dwight (1785-1831), Robert (1787-1841), Catharine Maria (1789-1867), and Charles (1791-1856). Henry Dwight Sedgwick, who married Jane Minot (b. 1795), graduated from Williams College in 1804 and became a lawyer in New York City. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, along ...

Child, Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick, 1824-1909

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Sedgwick, Henry D. (Henry Dwight), 1785-1831

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Sedgwick, Robert, 1787-1841

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Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist. From the description of Catharine Maria Sedgwick letters and portraits, 1837-1855. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35155329 American author, pioneered the American domestic novel. From the description of Papers of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1801-1865 (bulk 1834-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136087 American author. From the description of ...

Sedgwick, Elizabeth Ellery, 1799-1862

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Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911

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Allen was born Elizabeth Anne Chase on October 9, 1832 in Strong, Maine and grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). In 1851 she married her first husband, Marshall Taylor, but the marriage ended soon in divorce. She served as writer and associate editor for the Portland Transcript beginning in 1855, and in the next year published her first volume of poetry, Forest buds from the woods of Maine, under the pseudonym Florence Percy. S...

Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Sedgwick family

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United States Congressman Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813) and his first wife, Pamela Dwight (1752 or 1754-1807), had seven surviving children: Elizabeth Mason (1775-1827), Frances Pamela (1778-1842), Theodore (1780-1839), Henry Dwight (1785-1831), Robert (1787-1841), Catharine Maria (1789-1867), and Charles (1791-1856). Henry Dwight Sedgwick, who married Jane Minot (b. 1795), graduated from Williams College in 1804 and became a lawyer in New York City. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, along ...